HOLLOW BONES LYRICS

1. Wandering Sparrow

And in him grew a rage
That so desired to be known
Yet it remained quiet and unheard

And in a stroke of genius or tragedy
The universe sent him to his grave
And his rage went quietly with him

This is the story of our age
This is the story of our age
I am the voice of nightmares
I am the voice of nightmare

2. The November Diaries

I am selfishness incarnate
Self-loathing personified (Personified)
This is gonna be a fucking nightmare
I'd say I don't feel right in my own skin
But honestly that's not enough to describe how bad it's been
Living with myself these past few years, I am ashamed
I'm at the end of my rope
Surrounded on all sides by sharks

These old sails are getting tired
Carrying the weight of these beautiful bones
The weight of these beautiful bones
And I'm tired of dragging everyone down with me
Down with me

The guilt like lead in my guts
The guilt like lead in my guts
I have no one to blame but myself
This is my life and it's all I've known
I have no one to blame but myself
This is my life and it's all I've known
It's all I've known

The truth is when you dance with the Devil
You wait for the song to stop
The truth is when you dance with the Devil
You wait for the song to stop

I am selfishness incarnate
Self-loathing personified (Personified)
I've spent all my time searching
For my reflection in those I love (In those I love)
But I'll always be let down that way
Because what I'm looking for should be in me

Why isn't it in me? It should be in me
Why isn't it in me? It should be in me

I feel like a raw nerve
Exposed, alienated with no purpose
No direction, nowhere to feel at home
What happened to the courage
I grew up telling myself that I had?

What happened to the courage I swore I had?

I am the voice of nightmares
And I am never satisfied
And I am, I am never satisfied

3. Lionheart: Execution

"Dear God," she cries, "make it stop!"
I am a ghost, I am a ghost of who I once was
A shell of who I should be

There is a boiling rage
Sitting right beneath my skin
I've seen her cry again and again
For the love of someone who isn't there

Begging for the reassurance that was once promised
But no, the ugly face of what we call humanity
Has abandoned her as she's left struggling
To find an answer to what she's done wrong

But it is her fellow man that has wronged her
Shamed her into believing that she is broken
She's not broken
She's not broken

The god she was taught to turn to has sentenced her
To eternal suffering, to eternal suffering

An execution wearing the face of banality
It's wearing the face

Death by false values
We've signed the orders for her execution
This world has turned its back on her
And we've signed the orders for her execution

I always swore I would do more than just exist
But my fire has burnt out and I am just suspended
I always swore I would do more than just exist
But my fire has burnt out and I am just suspended

(I will love, I will grow)
(I will move forward)
(I have the heart of a lion)
(The heart of a lion)

4. Altruistic Lung

She's so totally in love with me
But I am too much of a fucking coward
To be anything for her
Because I am too afraid to find something worthy of love in myself

And I am being smothered
Crushed by my own inabilities, insecurities, instability, crushed
And I am being smothered
Crushed by my own inabilities

And I'm afraid to move around her
Without calculated action
She just might figure out
That I want nothing more than to love her back
And I do, I do

I want to feel that, the truth is that
While she's looking for ways to help calm the storm in my chest
I'm looking for ways to keep her at the end of my outstretched arms
A welcoming sight indeed but a trick nonetheless
A welcoming sight indeed but a trick nonetheless

And I can't, I can't take this

This constant back and forth like waves crushing rock
And I am being crushed

She can't see me the way I see myself
It will break her
It will, it will break me

And I am being smothered
Crushed by my own inabilities, insecurities, instability, crushed
And I am being smothered
Crushed by my own inabilities

And I wish, I wish I could live in another skin
Someone else's maybe but anything other than my own
Because it's getting too tight
And desperation has me longing to leave this shell behind
Leave this shell behind

And I wish, I wish I could live in another skin
Someone else's maybe but anything other than my own
Because it's getting too tight
And desperation, desperation has me longing to leave this shell behind
(Leave this shell behind)

Shed it all and leave her here
With the image she and I created of me

5. DRYTOOTH

Brother where have you gone?
Why have you left me? You were here just a moment ago
And sometimes it feels like you're lingering
Still lingering

Looking over my shoulder
I front like everything is okay, like everything is okay
The truth is I'm still so fucking mad that you left me
To face the world alone, to face myself alone
I put on a brave face for the people I love

But my heart is rotting without you here
It's been six years now and time hasn't
Done anything to heal the wounds you left

I still don't know if you did this to yourself or not
It was supposed to be me and you
Against the world like some cliché movie line

And there at the center of my pain
You resonate in a cadence of fury

Without you here I see nothing in myself
Without you here I see nothing, nothing

My heart is rotting without you here
And it's been six years now
But we were young and reckless
And we said things that we hoped that we'd
Understand someday when we grew up
When we grew up

It wasn't your fault, it wasn't your fault, Jim
(I can see now how helpless you were)
You had the weight of the world crushing your shoulders
(Locked behind the fortress you built)

And you thought the blame was on you
It wasn't your fault, Jim
(I can see now how helpless you were)
And now I get it, I understand now
It should have been me
(Locked behind the fortress you built)
I wish, I wish it had been me

6. I Watched the Snow Fall, and Bury Your Bones

These days I'm dreading sleep
Avoiding it like lovers avoid gazes when caught in a lie
Because I fear my dreams will be better than what I'm living
And I'm living less than half my dreams

A thick cloud of smoke
Has taken up permanent residence in my lungs
To keep your face from haunting me
To keep your face from haunting me

Hoping my mind will finally find some peace
Or piece of mind and you can have a piece of mine
'Cause it's impossible to pretend
I don't care what you think

Hoping my mind will finally find some peace
Or piece of mind and you can have a piece of mine
'Cause it's impossible to pretend
I don't care what you think

They say that misery loves company
But I have never been more alone
And I'm starting to think that love loves misery

They say that misery loves company
But I've never been more alone
And I'm starting to think that love loves misery

A thick cloud of smoke
Has taken up permanent residence in my lungs
To keep your face from haunting me

Hoping my mind will finally find some peace
Or piece of mind and you can have a piece of mine
'Cause it's impossible to pretend
I don't care what you think

Hoping my mind will finally find some peace
Or piece of mind and you can have a piece of mine
'Cause it's impossible to pretend
I don't

It's 3 A.M. and through tight lungs
And sweaty palms, my peace of mind
Goes to war over your pretty face
I watched the snow fall and bury your bones

7. Lionheart: Sonder

Where do I find the strength to live in this world?
In a world hungering for my dreams and disposition

We were promised it all
But instead what we got was a monster, ever thirsting
One that lives inside of us
And one that we recognize as the world around us

We are destruction
And as the world swallows us whole
Our monumental failures
Will be the only thing left behind

We can either be crushed
Under the weight of that truth (The weight of that truth)
Or one by one we can spread our wings
And together lift humanity

We are the crawling flesh of the Earth
There is no need to take what we have
We'll keep consuming until we're drowning
In overstimulation and stupidity

And all I see
And all I see is that we're a fucking plague
We'll keep consuming until we're drowning
Until we're drowning in our precious belongings

We can either be crushed
Under the weight of that truth (The weight of that truth)
Or one by one we can spread our wings
And together lift humanity

I want to believe that man can shine bright
Instead of being snuffed out
In the dark by our own breath
By our own breath

I want to believe that man can shine bright
Instead of being snuffed out
By our own breath in the dark

The end of the world is coming
And it will be by our own
Inability to love, to grow and to move forward
We are on our own

8. Wolfcrone

In my dreams I have a fever but they're not fever dreams
I'm just so fucking mad that you won't ever hear this
Unwilling or apathetic, I guess it's all the same
But your voice will always be the roots that keep me here

Bones laid upon bones

Bones laid upon bones that inhabited my life
And I thought that you'd come to put them to rest
I couldn't have been more wrong
You just added, you just added to the remains

And I have been so let down by you

This is all on you
This is all on you and I've been left to burn
You left your life
You left your life scattered across my heart

You are the lesson learned the hard way
That love will always let you down

Bones laid upon bones that inhabited my life
And I thought that you'd come to put them to rest
Bones laid upon bones that inhabited my life
And I thought that you'd come to put them to rest

Because in the pale light of the aging days
When I lie by myself in between
Pages and quotes you made sure I'd never forget

In that pale light I see your face
Pale like your skin
Pale like the feeling of being forced to let go
Because you didn't have the courage
To tell me you didn't love me anymore

9. A Murder of Crows

I'm losing sleep and I'm losing heart and while that's okay
I just don't think that there's a place for me
At dusk tomorrow, I just don't think that there's a place for me
When the sun sets

So bury me and my hollow bones
As I blink away the life I knew
Or give me something worth fighting for
So bury me and my hollow bones
Or give me something worth fighting for

Every day I'm forced to look into the empty eyes of my fellow man
There is no empathy there, there is no understanding
Focus your eyes inside yourself
This is no way to live, this is no way to live
No way to live

Tell me, do I sound like I'm fucking happy?
These are the words from the mouths of your youth
You're killing your children with neglect
You're killing your children 'cause you can't set down your pride
You're turning a blind eye when they needed you the most
You put it all on someone else, wash your hands and walk away

This is what we do, it's what we're taught works
It's what we believe
They say they understand but there is no empathy
In the eyes of my fellow man

You're letting the world around you fall apart
And you're letting that broken world raise your children

Fuck







HOLLOW BONES LYRICS